fan mounted on ivory branches pierced with gold and silver mounts painted on vellum with a decor showing the birth of Louis, son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, background representing a view of Saint Ouen and a scene showing France crowning a medallion supported by an angel surrounded by flowers and fruit in a frame also with a festival book and the head of a chinese with musicians and a negro boy in a gallery with six dormer-windows, 18th Century Delvaux group, Drouot-Paris. 18th Century fans are usually selling well (between $ 1,000 and 6,000) but this one reached quite a big price though not as impressive as the 190,000 FF ($ 30,160) bid recorded for a 19th Century mother of pearl fan decorated on its branches with human figures and angels and porcelain medallions and ruby cross-pieces with a vellum sheet painted with a country scene and another on the verso showing Love angels gathering grapes, signed A. Solde and dated 1858 from the «Maison Alexandre». |